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DYNAMIC VISION
From Images to Face Recognition
by Shaogang Gong (Queen Mary and Westfield College), Stephen J McKenna (University of Dundee) & Alexandra Psarrou (University of Westminster)
Face recognition is a task that the human vision system seems to perform almost effortlessly, yet the goal of building computer-based systems with comparable capabilities has proven to be difficult. The task implicitly requires the ability to locate and track faces through often complex and dynamic scenes. Recognition is difficult because of variations in factors such as lighting conditions, viewpoint, body movement and facial expression. Although evidence from psychophysical and neurobiological experiments provides intriguing insights into how we might code and recognise faces, its bearings on computational and engineering solutions are far from clear. The study of face recognition has had an almost unique impact on computer vision and machine learning research at large. It raises many challenging issues and provides a good vehicle for examining some difficult problems in vision and learning. Many of the issues raised are relevant to object recognition in general.
This book describes the latest models and algorithms that are capable of performing face recognition in a dynamic setting. The key question is how to design computer vision and machine learning algorithms that can operate robustly and quickly under poorly controlled and changing conditions. Consideration of face recognition as a problem in dynamic vision is perhaps both novel and important. The algorithms described have numerous potential applications in areas such as visual surveillance, verification, access control, video-conferencing, multimedia and visually mediated interaction.
The book will be of special interest to researchers and academics involved in machine vision, visual recognition and machine learning. It should also be of interest to industrial research scientists and managers keen to exploit this emerging technology and develop automated face and human recognition systems. It is also useful to postgraduate students studying computer science, electronic engineering, information or systems engineering, and cognitive psychology.
Contents:
- Background:
- About Face
- Perception and
Representation
- Learning Under Uncertainty
- From Sensory to Meaningful Perception:
- Selective Attention: Where to Look
- A Face Model: What to Look For
- Understanding Pose
- Prediction and Adaptation
- Models of Identity:
- Single-View Identification
- Multi-View Identification
- Identifying Moving Faces
- Perception in Context:
- Perceptual Integration
- Beyond Faces
- Appendices:
- Databases
- Commercial Systems
- Mathematical Details
Readership: Researchers in image processing, computer vision, neural networks,
artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, robotics and real-time systems.
"Dynamic Vision is a unique book. To my knowledge, there is no comparable book that covers the broad and complex domain of adaptive visual recognition in such a readable way. The clear presentation style helps the reader to appreciate the painstaking work involved in making the automatic recognition of faces possible ... the authors were successful in providing 'a coherent and unified treatment of the issue from a computational and systems perspective' and highly recommend the book to any researcher interested in face recognition or visual recognition in general."
| Cognitive Systems Research |
| 364pp |
Pub. date: May 2000 |
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